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IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE 



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JOSEPH NOYES HANCOX 



STONINGTON, CONNECTICUT 



By 
H. ALLEN TUPPER, JR., D.D. 






"Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit ; serving the 
Lord." — Romans, xii,, ri. 



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Joseph flo^es Ibancoy. 

NOVEMBER THE TWENTY-SEVENTH 
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE : 

NOVEMBER THE SIXTH 
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX. 

PHILLIPS BROOKS says that as- 
piration is a source of humility. 
This is undoubtedly true, if the aspira- 
tion is after the good, the holy, the 
divine. 

Such aspiration, however, is not found 
commonly among the most highly favored 
with respect to the gifts of nature and 
of Providence. Emphatically is this so, 
when the prominence is in connection 
with the material affairs of life. In 
glancing over the business men of dis- 



tinction, in any country, one is not im- 
pressed with the number who are eminent 
for profound piety, as the fruit of con- 
stant longing after righteousness. 

There is something in contact with 
the material which is materializing. It 
does not tend to the ethical, the ethereal, 
the spiritual. This is the principle on 
which the young man was sad when the 
Great Teacher bade him to sell his prop- 
erty and follow him. But when the 
grace of God is thoroughly established 
in the heart of the eminent man of busi- 
ness, the very difficulty of his business, 
with regard to godliness, gives him special 
opportunity for distinguished spirituality. 
In his sphere of labor the temptations to 
violate the golden law of Christian ethics 
(Phil, iv., 8) are the most constant ; the 



sordid passion for gain for galn*s sake is 
most likely to prevail ; the aspiration to 
excel in wealth, in order that good may 
be done, is most powerful and most de- 
ceptive ; there is most likelihood, as the 
Master taught, that the seed of the 
word will be choked by the cares of the 
world and the deceitfulness of riches. 
And when these great enemies of per- 
sonal religion are steadfastly resisted and 
overcome, it indicates a graciousness of 
spirit, so firmly established that the sln- 
cerest humility may be expected as the 
crowning grace of practical Christianity, 
and the highest aspiration after the char- 
acter of the great exemplar for regener- 
ated human nature. This is a fulfilment 
of the beatitude, " Blessed are they which 
do hunger and thirst after righteousness ; 



for they shall be filled." And whom, 
among the sons of men, may we be more 
thankful for, than for the humble, pious, 
Christly business-man of God ? 

Who is a more faithful steward of the 
Master's goods ? Who has better oppor- 
tunity to extend good where it is most 
needed ? Who is more likely to hear the 
plaudit: ''Well done, good and faithful 
servant " ? 

These thoughts come to mind unbid- 
den, as the writer glances at the life of 
the subject of these lines, who recently, 
in his home and native town, Stonington, 
Connecticut, fell on sleep in Jesus, be- 
moaned not only by his circle of loved 
ones, but by his fellow citizens, without 
distinction of business, politics, or re- 
ligion, and by the Baptist brotherhood 



of the country, all realizing that the 
death of a good man is a public calamity, 
however great the blessedness of the de- 
ceased himself, suggested by the latter 
stanzas of the following poem, the last 
he ever asked a loving amanuensis to 
copy for him. 

A QUIET TALK WITH GOD. 

I sit alone in my chamber, 

And I talk with God the while, 
And he seems so very near me 

I think I can see Him smile. 



Alone with my dear, kind Father, 

My room grows bright and more bright, 
For His glory fills all about me 

Till it glows with a halo of light. 
And I remember His precious promise, 

" Come, weary one, draw near 
When billows roll o'er thy troubled soul. 

And I will dispel all fear." 



So I sit and talk with my Father 

In this homely little place, 
And I think of the light and glory 

Of that other and better place. 
When this tent I shall lay aside, 

Made clean by His boundless grace, 
I shall walk the golden pavement 

And see Him face to face. 

I shall see Him face to face, 

And I 'm sure I shall know Him there. 
For I Ve talked with Him so often 

When burdened with sorrow and care. 
And my soul has gone out to meet Him, 

Struggling His word to fulfil, 
So gently He 's quelled the wild tempest 

With a whispered " Peace, be still." 

Mr. Hancox was converted and made a 
public profession of faith when seventeen 
years old. He was baptized by the Rev. 
Jabez Swan, June 26th, 1842, and became 
a member of the First Baptist Church of 
Stonington, Connecticut. 



He had the gracious advantage, among 
many others, of the intimate friendship of 
one of the greatest and godliest men of 
this country, Dr. Richard Fuller, the great 
divine and incomparable pulpit orator, who 
consecrated his life to bringing souls to 
Jesus. In the spring of 1852, Mr. Hancox, 
who had moved to Baltimore the year 
before, united with the Seventh Baptist 
Church of that city, whose pastor was Dr. 
Fuller. 

And it is lofty testimony to the true, 
noble, and Christ-loving character of Mr. 
Hancox that from that time until the death 
of Dr. Fuller he was bound to this man of 
God with more than triple bands of steel. 
The affinity between them was not only 
their common and constant rejoicing in the 
saving Jesus, but their oneness in the great- 



ness of benevolence and benefactions. Dr. 
Fuller, reared In affluence and a lordly man 
in doing good, knew how to appreciate a 
spirit like Mr. Hancox, who held his pos- 
sessions as a sacred trust of the Master, to 
be used for the Lord's children and their 
Master's glory. Hence his delight in fel- 
lowship with this strong business man 
whose will and energy no human affairs 
could overcome, but whose spirit, before 
the Lord and his brethren, was that of 
simple, trustful, childlike humility itself, 
the power of Jesus' love being the sover- 
eign of his existence. It was not strange 
that the attachment between these kindred 
spirits should be so ardent and so promo- 
tive of the profit of the parishioner and 
the pleasure of the preacher. 

In 1855 M^- Hancox was called to Ston- 



ington by the death of his father. This 
event changed the entire course of his life, 
for he soon after left Baltimore, the city to 
which he had become so deeply attached, 
removing to his old home. He then estab- 
lished for himself an extensive wholesale 
and retail coal business, and also became 
largely interested in the whaling and seal- 
ing trade. To this he devoted all his en- 
ergies until he was stricken with illness in 
1895, when, without warning, God's hand 
was laid upon him, and his labors ceased. 

But this removal to Connecticut had no 
effect upon the loving fellowship existing 
between Mr. Hancox and his beloved pas- 
tor. Letters were exchanged, and occa- 
sionally he would visit Baltimore and the 
church he loved so well, where his mem- 
bership remained until his death. Dr. 



Fuller was frequently a guest in the happy 
home of Mr. Hancox, whom the Doctor 
called his " New England parishioner." 
And the parishioner, keeping pace with 
the progress of his " Old Pastor," may be 
well believed to have risen, in his own 
experience, to the exalted plane of his 
human ideal. 

Another testimony to the excellence of 
the now sainted man of God was the de- 
votion of children to him, and his devo- 
tion to them. 

Dana said he cared not if men hated 
him while children loved him. 

Mr. Hancox gave the strength of his 
Christian manhood and the richness of his 
spiritual experience to the children, in his 
excellence as a Sunday-school superintend- 
ent and teacher at the same time, from 



1858101871. And even after an increased 
development of deafness, which made it 
difficult for him to continue to be their 
superintendent, the Stonington Sunday- 
school was unwilling to release him. Thor- 
oughly appreciative were the little ones, 
to whom this man of the Lord had im- 
parted both pleasure and profit. 

During the year of his illness, '* when he 
was so sweetly patient under the terrible 
restraint," children's eyes were continually 
upturned to his window to see if they 
could catch a glance and wave of the 
hand from the invalid who so enjoyed their 
sweet and winning ways. On the streets, 
as he was wheeled about by his attendants, 
they handed him flowers ; and when the 
sleeper was taking his last sleep, the most 
affecting and eloquent spectacle — more af- 



fecting than flags at ''half mast"; than 
much business of the town suspended ; 
than a community in mourning — was the 
long line of children who softly marched 
around the open casket, to pay their last 
tribute of reverential love with tearful 
eyes and throbbing hearts to the departed 
one, who could say no more, as he was 
wont to say to his teachers : " We must 
bring the children to Jesus." And this 
loving command, how like the Master 
Himself, who said : *' Suffer the little chil- 
dren to come unto Me." And still he 
says so, in the fact of the majority of the 
human family being taken to Him in 
childhood, which gives a perpetual fresh- 
ness to the song of songs : " My beloved 
is gone down into his garden to gather 
lilies." 



The doctrine of heredity teaches that 
human character receives its start before 
the Individual begins his career of actual 
living. It is held that the complexities and 
inconsistencies of character may be trace- 
able to widely differing progenitors of far 
distant generations. 

It is not true that there is transmission 
of the life spiritual from progenitor to 
progeny. It is true, however, that many a 
godly parent Is represented In a child who 
develops a character similar in spiritual 
symmetry and beauty to that of a godly 
father or mother. Does not the tender 
love of Paul for his son in the Lord sug- 
gest the character of Timothy's mother 
and grandmother, Eunice and Lois, from 
whom the son sprang, and by whom he 
was trained, from childhood, in the Holy 



Scriptures ? Who has ever looked upon 
the Madonna St. Sextus — the masterpiece 
of Raphael — without tracing some heav- 
enly resemblance between the mother and 
child ; and without feeling that the won- 
derful artist designed the resemblance ? 

But in what Christian family may not 
the truth be fully verified ? 

Thus was our departed friend blessed 
with godly parents, who gave him a goodly 
mental and moral constitution not uninflu- 
enced by their spiritual character, and who 
trained him in the nurture and admonition 
of the Lord. 

In the Stonington Baptist Church his 
father, for many years, was a worthy dea- 
con, who " purchased to himself a good 
degree." His mother is described as a 
^' noble, Christian woman," who gave 



special attention to the spiritual interests- 
of her son, who, when she was widowed, 
delighted to minister to her comfort, as a 
dutiful and grateful son. And worthily 
did the son, who, at sixteen, finished his 
studies at New Haven, having developed 
" a decided taste and talent for business," 
and who had been associated in Baltimore 
with one of the wealthiest and most liberal 
of the business men of that city, Enoch 
Pratt — whom as philanthropist and man 
of affairs he regarded a grand ideal — be- 
come by his business tact and energy the 
successor of the worthy father. And not 
only w^as he thus honored In domestic life 
by such parentage. It is written that 
*' whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing 
and obtaineth favor of the Lord." 

On December 27, 1853, he married 



Emeline Pendleton, daughter of Francis 
Pendleton and Sarah Sophia Trumbull, the 
father a prominent citizen of Stonington, 
and the mother a woman of lovely Chris- 
tian character. 

The beautiful and exquisite memorials 
of Mrs. Hancox, who, on December 12, 
1 89 1, preceded her husband to the land of 
light and love, attest the reverence for her 
character of transparent grace, realizing, as 
it did, the gifts of the Spirit, '' love, joy, 
peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, 
faith." One who often visited the home 
writes of Mrs. Hancox, "whose departure 
crushed her husband and daughter with 
overwhelming bereavement " : 

'* She was a woman of lovable character ; 
kind, hospitable, and possessed of a noble 
Christian spirit ; devoted to her husband 



and their only child, to whom she was 
not only mother, but companion and 
friend." 

Mrs. Hancox was a devoted Baptist and 
an ardent lover of Missions. On April 
1 8, 1853, she was baptized by the Rev. A. 
G. Palmer, D.D., the dearly-loved pastor 
who had known her from childhood and 
through almost her entire life. Mrs. Han- 
cox was fully in sympathy with her hus- 
band's acts of benevolence, often uniting 
with him in various gifts. 

In every true, earnest, and strong char- 
acter there is some idea and motive of life, 
the one being the spring of energy, the 
other the point around which the charac- 
ter and conduct are formed or transformed. 
This was conspicuously verified in our 
departed brother. 



Christ seemed to be the centre and cir- 
cumference of his life. In all of his ways 
he committed himself to the Lord. His 
business life, his home life, his church life, 
felt the sanctifying influence of the grace 
of God. The unseen but all-powerful mo- 
tive that prompted his daily doings mani- 
fested itself in every direction. Before he 
was stricken by his last illness, his pastor 
was left alone in Mr. Hancox' business 
office, and, glancing about the room, he 
noticed a worn Bible that had proven to 
be, in all of these years, a lamp unto his 
feet, and a light unto his path ; and pinned 
in the centre of his desk, where he must 
read it constantly during the busy hours 
of the day, was the following strikingly 
tender poem, setting forth his trust in the 
goodness and guidance of God : 



Just to trust, and yet to ask 

Guidance still ; 
Take the training or the task 

As He will ; 
Just to take the loss or gain 

As He sends it ; 
Just to take the joy or pain 
As He lends it. 
He who formed thee for His praise, 

Will not miss His gracious aim ; 
So to-day and all thy days, 

Shall be moulded for the same. 



Just to leave in His dear hand 

Little things ; 
All we cannot understand, 

All that stings ; 
Just to let Him take the care. 

Sorely pressing, 
Finding all we let Him bear. 

Changed to blessing. 
This is all ! and yet the way 

Marked by Him who loved thee best, 
Secret of a happy day. 

Secret of His promised rest. 



Nothing was plainer than that the love 
of Christ was the moving power of his 
being. This is more than suggested by 
his losing no favorable opportunity of 
commending to others the adorable One, 
"whom having not seen he loved, and in 
whom, though he saw him not, yet believ- 
ing, he rejoiced with joy unspeakable and 
full of glory — receiving the end of his faith, 
the salvation of his soul." 

To the minister of the Gospel he did 
not hesitate to say : " Brother, do you love 
the Lord Jesus whom you preach ?" To 
the most prominent men of business, as, for 
example, Mr. Enoch Pratt, the founder of 
the Pratt Library of Baltimore, he felt it a 
joyous duty to present the truth as it is in 
Jesus. He often referred to himself as " a 
sinner saved by grace," the profound ex- 



perience of which fixed ever before him 
the Lord as his loving Master, and himself 
as his willing and obedient servant. This 
was the great idea of his life. His holy 
ambition was to realize it ; and the nearer 
he reached it, the profounder was his 
humility. The parable of the talents in- 
cluded an exact picture of his enthusias- 
tically recognized relation to the Lord. 
He studied himself ; he knew what he was 
and what he could do ; and the work to 
which he was best adapted, by nature and 
Providence and grace, was his sacred and 
perpetual duty. Humbly he said : *' I am 
a man of one talent." But that talent was 
a great one, as he unconsciously expounded 
it, when he said : ** I do business for the 
Lord." And well could the Master entrust 
his goods to such a servant. His native 



energy and good judgment and absolute 
integrity of dealing the Lord blessed. And 
verily did he handle his property as a 
steward of God. It is said of him that 
*' he was ever seeking to make the best 
investments for the Master." 

And he recognized his obligation, as a 
steward, to dispense in the name of the 
Lord. Who in need ever applied to him 
in vain ? What good cause, presented to 
him, did he ever fail to assist ? Who was 
not made to feel, when asking and re- 
ceiving his help, that he was conferring a 
favor on the donor? He would say when 
thanked : " It is not my money, it is the 
Lord's." And how many monuments to 
his princely and gracious spirit, are over 
our land and in foreign lands, in grateful 
hearts and up-built causes, in the name of 



Christ ? As a single illustration : Though 
removed from the Seventh Baptist Church 
of Baltimore, more than forty years, he 
continued his aid to all of its interests as 
when he lived in that city. 

The late pastor of this church can lov- 
ingly testify that, not seldom, did his en- 
couraging words, his wise suggestions, and 
his munificent gifts act as a new inspiration 
to people and pastor. His visits to the old 
church were always hailed with delight ; 
and young and old alike sought to honor 
the one whose love for his church remained 
undiminished during all these years of ab- 
sence. In the highest sense he was the 
pastor's friend — unselfish, sympathetic, 
generous, and true. He loved to invest 
for the Lord, where fire could not burn, 
water could not drown, and time could 



not destroy — in immortal mind and spirit. 
Hence his gifts to college, church, and 
evangelical work, as witnessed at home, 
and elsewhere at the north ; and in the 
south, at Richmond College and the South- 
ern Baptist Theological Seminary. ** He 
loved to assist young men to prepare to 
go forth and preach the gospel of Jesus 
Christ." 

But, the question of the young Nazarene, 
in the Temple of Jerusalem : '* Wist ye not 
that I must be about my Father's busi- 
ness ?" is suggestive of how this servant of 
the Most High did business for the Lord, 
in more direct service of the Lord's house. 
The revival of religion '' which swept 
south-eastern Connecticut like a mighty 
wave," in the winter of 1 895-1 896, under 
the leadership of his very dear friends, 



Rev. A. C. Barron, D.D., and Rev. H. M. 
Wharton, D.D., was largely due, under 
God, to his personal efforts and prayers, in 
inaugurating it. A great sentiment of his 
heart was that of the Psalmist : '' One thing 
have I desired of the Lord and that will I 
seek after, that I may dwell in the house 
of the Lord all the days of my life, to be- 
hold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire 
in his Temple." In the atmosphere of fra- 
ternal fellowship, and spiritual longings 
and labors, and under the preached word 
in its purity and simplicity, spiritual gifts 
and graces were most fully developed, and 
questions of duty were most easily solved 
and most joyfully performed. In doctrine 
he was thoroughly orthodox, in life he 
"walked with God," with the highest as- 
pirations and the lowliest humility. ** He 



was a noble Baptist layman, who, through a 
long life, ' carried on business for the Lord,' 
and maintained the simple faith in the 
atoning work of Christ. . . . He was 
one of the most lovable of men, believed in 
the old gospel, and took a practical interest 
in extending the cause of Christ. . . . 
He was strong in faith and rich in good 
works. He believed that the work of 
Christ for him was so great that tireless 
energy in His service was little enough to 
offer in return. His constant longing was 
that he might see others entering into the 
grace, which had meant so much to him, 
through so many years. He was a man 
of extensive business operations ; but he 
never lost sight of the fact that he was a 
steward of Him who had bought him with 
a price. His citizenship was in the King- 



dom, and the interests of the Kingdom 
always found in him a helpful sympathizer. 
He has left with those, who knew his 
heart, that large conception of the Chris- 
tian faith, which always comes when we 
have seen one in whom that faith reaches 
out into every avenue of life." 

As the Angel of the Lord smote Peter 
in prison, bidding him to put on his san- 
dals and gird himself and go forth into 
joyous liberty, so on November 2, 1895, 
and again on November 2, 1896, the 
Lord's messenger, in the form of paraly- 
sis, smote his faithful servant, incarcerated 
in the flesh, and bade him prepare himself 
for perfect freedom ; and in the early 
morning of November 6, 1896, he passed 
beyond the portals of this world, calmly 
and grandly as the retiring god of day. 



In a Stonington paper, dated November 
the loth, appeared the following: 

FUNERAL OF JOSEPH N. HANCOX. 

The last sad services over the remains of the late 
Joseph Noyes Hancox, were held yesterday after- 
noon from his late residence in Stonington. The 
rooms were crowded with friends of the deceased, 
while many stood on the piazza and on the walk in 
front of the house. Many friends sent beautiful 
flowers which mutely testified to the depth of love 
and esteem in which the deceased was held by the 
senders. 

At three o'clock Rev. H. Allen Tupper, Jr., D.D., 
late paster of the Seventh Baptist Church of Balti- 
more, of which Mr. Hancox had been a member 
nearly all of his life, led in prayer, followed by 
Scripture reading by Rev. Henry Clarke of Ston- 
ington. Dr. Tupper then read the Ninety-first 
Psalm, after which Rev. William C. Martin of 
Noank offered prayer. Then Dr. Tupper made a 
short address. His remarks were well chosen and 
true of the life of him who was dead. This con- 
cluded the service at the house. The remains were 



then taken to Evergreen Cemetery. As the casket 
was reverently borne to its resting-place, Scriptures 
were read by Dr. Tupper, Rev. Henry Clarke, Rev. 
William C. Martin, assisted by Rev. John Evans of 
Westerly. Then followed prayer, and the Com- 
mittal by Dr. Tupper, a short prayer by Rev. 
Henry Clarke. The benediction was then pro- 
nounced. 

The honorary bearers were Messrs. Billings 
Burtch, W. J. H. Pollard, Samuel H. Chesebro, 
Ephraim Williams, James H. Stivers, William P. 
Bindloss, John H. Bellamy, William F. Noyes. 



The following tributes have been offered 
in memory of the dead ** blessed in the 
Lord " : 



Resolutions adopted at a special meeting of the 
Seventh Baptist Churchy Baltimore^ Md., November 
8, i8g6. 

We, the members of the Seventh Baptist Church 
of Baltimore, bow reverently before our Heavenly 
Father, who has removed from us by death our 



beloved brother, Joseph N. Hancox, on the morn- 
ing of November 6, 1896. 

For forty-four years, Brother Hancox was a 
consistent and devoted member of this church. 
Although for many years past his residence has 
been in the distant town of Stonington, Conn., yet 
his great love for the church induced him to con- 
tinue his membership with us. Nor was his long 
membership one in name alone, for he ever mani- 
fested the deepest interest in all the works in which 
the church engaged, and was always ready, gener- 
ously and heartily, to contribute of his means 
toward their success. No one seemed to enjoy 
more than he the blessed assurance, " The Lord 
loveth a cheerful giver." 

Therefore be it Resolved^ That in the death of 
Brother Joseph N. Hancox, the Seventh Baptist 
Church has lost a valued member, one whose 
long Christian life is a bright example to be cher- 
ished by us, and to stimulate our zeal to steadfastly 
follow our blessed Lord, even as he did to the end 
of his days. 

Be it further Resolved^ That these proceedings be 
entered on the records of the church and a copy 
thereof be sent to his daughter with our prayers 



and the assurance of our Christian sympathy with 
her in her great bereavement. 

W. J. E. Cox, Pastor. 

W. H. Perkins, For the Board of Trustees. 

M. Hammond, For the Deacons. 

Geo. O. Fresch, Clerk. 

Resolutions unanimously adopted at an unusually 
full meeting of the Noank Baptist Church, Saturday 
Evenings Noveinber the Seventh^ A.D. i8g6. 

Whereas, It has pleased our Heavenly Father to 
take unto Himself our beloved friend and brother 
in Christ — Joseph Hancox — therefore be it Resolved, 
That in the death of this dear brother, our commu- 
nity and our church lose a valued friend, with an 
affectionate, tender love, unbounded sympathy, and 
a heart yearning for the good of Zion, His life 
was to us a benediction. 

Resolved, That we record with grief-stricken 
hearts his devotion to and earnestness in the Mas- 
ter's service, his never-failing charity, his wise coun- 
sel, his generous and unselfish devotion to the cause 
of Christ. 

Resolved, That we extend our most sincere and 
heartfelt sympathy to the faithful daughter in her 



hour of deep anguish, to the sister now alone in the 
world, and to all the relatives and friends, praying 
that the Divine Comforter may fill them with the 
consolations of the Gospel. 

Resolvedy That a copy of these resolutions be 
sent to the daughter of our departed friend and 
also entered upon the records of the church. 
Submitted by D. W. Chester, 

Robert Palmer, 
A. V. Morgan. 

At their semi-annual meeting, December 
the fifteenth, 1896, the Trustees of Rich- 
mond College unanimously adopted, as the 
sentirnent of the board, the paper ensuing : 

The name of Joseph Noyes Hancox, 
who fell on sleep, November the sixth, 
1896, at his residence in Stonington, Con- 
necticut, should be embalmed in the heart 
of every lover of the good, the generous, 
the godly, who knew his private life of 
pious well-doing, and his liberal relations 



to institutions, educational and religious, 
in our country and in other lands. With 
natural gifts for commercial pursuits, im- 
proved by business experience in extensive 
enterprises, with high ideals of integrity, 
prudence, philanthropy, and piety ever 
before him, he consecrated his all, native 
and acquired, to the honor of Him, whom 
he enthusiastically confessed as his Lord. 
He was not only God's man : he was 
God's steward, avowedly and demonstra- 
tively. Yet, his donations to the needy, 
whether individual or associated, were so 
regardful of the gospel-precept, *' let not 
thy left hand know what thy right hand 
doeth," that innumerable acts of benevo- 
lence, which characterized his life, will 
never be known, except to eyes divine and 
to hearts blessed by his quiet benefactions. 



Richmond College has shared, as stated by 
our Secretary and Treasurer, "to the ex- 
tent of several thousand dollars," in this 
Christly goodness of the now sainted man 
of God, in addition to a provision that the 
name dearest to him on earth shall be per- 
petuated in our college. Therefore : 

1. Be it Resolved^ That in the translation of our 
noble friend and brother, the Trustees of Richmond 
College bemoan the loss to themselves and to the 
country of a broad-hearted patriot and philanthro- 
pist as well as one of the humblest of the children 
of God. 

2. Be it Resolved^ That the publication of his 
bequests to religious and educational institutions, 
in which our College shares equally with several 
others, gives assurance that through the future 
it shall be said of him : " He being dead yet 
speaketh." 

3. Be it Resolved^ That the example of this truly 
good and great man, in his conscientious and con- 
stant dispensation of the Lord's effects, committed. 



by divine providence, to his keeping, is worthy of 
all imitation by our prospered and prospering men 
of business, who name the name of the Lord Jesus, 
and hope to hear, in the day of final account, " Well 
done, good and faithful servants." 

4. Be it Resolved^ That the condolence of Rich- 
mond College be, and the same is hereby presented 
to the daughter of the deceased. Miss Bessie Han- 
cox, with assurances of the greatful memory with 
which the departed head of the house shall be ever 
cherished by our institution so honored by his favor. 

5. Be it Resolved^ That these Preambles and Reso- 
lutions be spread upon the Records of the College, 
and that a copy of them be sent to the daughter at 
Stonington, Conn. 

The above is a true copy of the action of 
the Board of Trustees of Richmond Col- 
lege, spread upon the Records of Decem- 
ber 15, 1896. 

Charles H. Ryland, 

Secretary, 

For years, Mr. Hancox carried on his 



person these lines, which breathe a loving 
aspiration, now fully met in the glorified 
life of our brother : 

With Jesus, 

With Jesus, yes, with Jesus, 
Are any words so blest ? 
With Jesus, everlasting joy 
And everlasting rest ! 
With Jesus, all the empty heart 
Filled with his perfect love. 
With Jesus, perfect peace below 
And perfect bliss above ! 



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